Month: February 2024

London, 22nd February 2023 – Motorway, the UK’s fastest-growing used car marketplace, today announced the launch of Motorway Move – an enhanced end-to-end transportation solution for Motorway purchases; improving appraisal quality, speed and service levels. The innovative new transport solution has been designed to significantly improve the post-sale experience for dealers, making the process easier, faster, and more consistent, whilst delivering more value. 

Motorway Collect

Motorway Move is powered by two new proprietary technologies, built in-house by the team at Motorway. The first is Motorway Collect, a vehicle appraisal app, which enables more accurate and thorough vehicle appraisals. Motorway Collect will be rolled out to Motorway Move collections from today, driving quality, consistency and transparency in the vehicle collection and appraisal process. 

With Motorway Collect, the driver collecting the vehicle has access to the same vehicle profile from the Motorway daily sale. This enables them to compare the vehicle being collected to the original profile, resulting in a faster, more accurate appraisal process.

Motorway Collect also allows drivers to highlight any additional damage, upload photos directly to the app, and conduct a test drive. The purchasing dealer is able to review the vehicle’s full appraisal in Motorway Pro and make decisions on potential negotiations, if needed. 

When the transportation is complete, proof of delivery is also submitted by the driver in the Motorway Collect app, giving the purchasing dealer full transparency over the condition of their purchased vehicle. 

Designed to drive high quality and consistent appraisals, Motorway Collect provides dealers with peace of mind when outsourcing the collection of their purchases.

Motorway Dispatch

Network planning for Motorway Move will be driven by Motorway’s new transport management system, Motorway Dispatch. 

Designed to improve the speed and efficiency of vehicle deliveries, Motorway Dispatch drives faster vehicle collections and deliveries, through optimised planning and workforce management. The innovative network planning capabilities will see drivers placed in jobs that are most local to them, reducing wasted travel and supporting faster deliveries and less rescheduled jobs.

For dealers, this will save time and money as they will receive their vehicles faster, reducing days to sale. By streamlining operations, Motorway Dispatch will also reduce defects, such as reschedules, giving dealers confidence that their vehicles will be collected and delivered when expected. 

New, more competitive rates 

Finally, Motorway Move fees have been reduced by up to 10% when compared to the previous Motorway Transport product, with movements now from as little as £89. This offers dealers a competitive and all-inclusive price, highlighting Motorway’s commitment to delivering more value for dealer partners.

James Wilson, Chief Operating Officer at Motorway, said:

“When purchasing used-car stock with Motorway, our dealer partners need an efficient and effective vehicle transport provider. Transportation has been a pain point for many of our dealers and the wider industry, for a number of reasons, including the quality of appraisals, service levels and, of course, price.

“We’ve listened to feedback from dealers we work with and have fully enhanced our transport offering with a suite of new products and more competitive fees. This is a prime example of Motorway at its best – listening to dealer feedback and using smart technology to deliver a best in class experience. Motorway will now deliver more value than ever to our dealer partners, driving quality, consistent vehicle collections and deliveries.”

Dealers can book vehicle deliveries with Motorway Move on Motorway Pro.

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About Motorway

Motorway is the UK’s fastest-growing used car marketplace. We connect people selling their car directly with our network of more than 5,000 verified car dealers, matching each seller on our platform with the dealer who most wants to buy their car. We help car owners sell their cars 100% online for a great price in as little as 24 hours, with their car collected from home for free, while supporting our car dealer partners to easily acquire the best used car stock.

London, 1st February 2024 – Motorway, the UK’s fastest growing used car marketplace, has today announced it will sponsor ITV’s broadcast coverage of the Guinness Six Nations, for the third consecutive year.

Motorway’s sponsorship will feature brand new creative idents, featuring one of rugby’s most well known former players and ITV Guinness Six Nations pundits, Lawrence Dallaglio. 

The new creative idents dramatise the feeling Motorway sellers have, when they sell their car on Motorway, for more money. The humorous ads feature rugby fans celebrating their highest offer, at times throughout the match when they probably shouldn’t be celebrating!

Click here to watch the idents

In one of four new creative idents, we see a team gathered in the locker room during halftime. The players look tired and downhearted, as they stare at the ground. The coach looks to motivate them with an impassioned speech. A phone ‘dings’ with a notification and we see one player excitedly cheering at his phone. He’s received his highest offer from Motorway, with a prompt to ‘Confirm Offer’. Just as he accepts the offer, we see ITV pundit Lawrence Dallaglio step out from the showers. In nothing but a yellow towel, Dallaglio reports, ‘Oh yeah he’s winning!’ The film ends with “Guinness Six Nations coverage, sponsored by Motorway”.

The sponsorship agreement, planned and brokered by Motorway’s media agency MG OMD, will span 10 live games across ITV’s coverage of the 2024 tournament. The sponsorship kicks off with the first game on 2nd February, France v Ireland and will include a comprehensive activation package, with the whistle to whistle 10 second creative idents before games, during half-time and in post match coverage.

This partnership continues Motorway’s sponsorship of primetime sports coverage, following their sponsorship of TNT Sports’ broadcast coverage of the Premier League for the 2023/2024 season. 

Rachael Halliday, Brand Director of Motorway, said: “We’re proud to be sponsoring ITV’s coverage of the Guinness Six Nations for the third consecutive year. As one of the most watched and talked about sports fixtures in the UK, it’s a prime spot for Motorway to be driving awareness and consideration as the definitive way to sell a car for more money. 

“This year we’ve created a series of creative idents, which bring to life the celebratory feeling when you sell your car for more money – a feeling shared with rugby fans when their team scores the winning try. With this high reach sponsorship, we hope to help even more car owners sell their cars online for more money, to our nationwide network of thousands of dealers.”

Simon Daglish, Group Commercial Director, ITV said: “2024 is a big year for sport at ITV, and so we can’t wait for the Six Nations tournament next month. We’re delighted to partner with Motorway on such a high calibre sporting event for the third consecutive year.”

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About Motorway

Motorway is the UK’s fastest-growing used car marketplace. We connect people selling their car directly with our network of more than 5,000 verified car dealers, matching each seller on our platform with the dealer who most wants to buy their car. We help car owners sell their cars 100% online for a great price in as little as 24 hours, with their car collected from home for free, while supporting our car dealer partners to easily acquire the best used car stock.